rehttps

GHSA-9jg3-xv6j-f5g3

Malicious code in rehttps (PyPI)

Details

**Severity:** Critical

**Affected versions:** `= 2.32.3`

## Source: kam193 (08172961784989f62b2b0793fa7686e1c25883883f790293df61591aa2fc6940)
During installation, package attempts to download and starts an executable. The package itself is a clone of requests


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Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.


Campaign: 2025-06-rehttps


Reasons (based on the campaign):


 - clones-real-package


 - The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation.

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Credit: [OpenSSF](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages) ([source](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/rehttps/MAL-2025-6575.json))

**References:**
- https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/rehttps
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/rehttps/MAL-2025-6575.json
- https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/08ba6289e5c338b446a9551cec8e818321299c72c844d13cf2a0601a37fb8e52/detection
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-9jg3-xv6j-f5g3

Compromised versions (1)

= 2.32.3

Any computer that installed or ran a compromised version should be considered fully compromised. Rotate every secret on that machine from a clean environment.